Demosthenes: “This you must leave off; be yourselves again; establish a general liberty of speech, deliberation, and action.”

For the riches of a state I consider to be allies, confidence, good-will; of all which you are destitute.

He is convinced, you will not submit to be slaves; if you were inclined, you would not know how, having been accustomed to command: you will be able, should occasion offer, to give him more trouble than any people in the world.

Yea, among these men, some have risen rapidly from poverty to wealth, from meanness and obscurity to repute and honor, while you, on the contrary, have fallen from honor to obscurity, from wealth to indigence.

I say, you must either desist from these practices, or blame none but yourselves for the wretched condition of your affairs.